Blood Bowl Majors Season 5 - Congratulations...me!

Result: The White-As-Snow Dwarves have taken the title after a very tense match, giving me my first Arstechnica league victory.

In contrast to the previous league, the hard limit for the 2nd half of the season will not apply in one (1) circumstance: if a player is also playing in the Minor League, the Major League game can be played up to a week after the end of the hard deadline. Hopefully this will help allay concerns from veterans who are uncomfortable with the responsibility that comes from playing in two leagues at once.

Rules are spoilered here:

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1.) All teams submitted must have either played a previous Minor League season, or have played a MAXIMUM of 8 games. I reserve the right to reject any team that I feel was the product of experience farming. There is no maximum TV limit.

2.) The turn timers will be set at 4 minutes. If they had made the possibility of 3-minute turns or custom turn lengths, we could do something like that, but with the only options being 2 minutes or 4 minutes, 4 minutes is the only truly rational choice.

3.) Novice coaches are welcome. Part of the purpose of the "Main" league is for newer players to get a chance to get into some hot League action.

4.) No teams are barred, and we will NOT be enforcing team exclusivity. While there's enough decent teams to go around, I really don't see a problem with having two or three Orc teams, or Dwarf teams, or whatever.

5.) Games will, of course, be played within the Online portion of the PC version of the game (Legendary or Chaos Edition). Sorry, 360 players - you're just not up to date, and you don't connect to the same League backbone. Get a real game machine.

6.) 8 teams will make the playoffs unless we magically get 20 teams, which would then bump it up to a 16-team playoff.

7.) When you complete a game, please post a match report, even if it's just giving the score. This helps the admins know that a game has actually been played, leads to prompt verification and lets me know when there's only 1 or 2 games left in case I need to bug people.

8.) At the start of a new BB day, tentative game dates/times should be posted here. Most people schedule in this thread, but if you schedule outside of the thread, please post to give us a heads-up so the admins can keep track of when they need to verify games and who they still need to track down to get clear times.

9.) Barring unusual circumstances, for the second half of the season there will be an 11-day or 2-weekend hard time limit for games, whichever is longer. The due date will be posted in the topic once the hard limit kicks in. For the first half, the 7-day soft time limit rule applies: if we hear nothing from you within a week and the game remains unplayed, you forfeit. If you can't get a game in during that period please post in the thread so we know that efforts have been made and have an idea when we can expect the game to be played.

The White-As-Snow Dwarves have...probably registered for this league. It's hard to tell, as the best any of them could manage was a drunken scrawl that looks like a bunch of squiggles got in a fight. Alcohol can once again numb the pain that comes with not playing Blood Bowl; however, alcohol tolerance comes back much faster the second time around, so they should be in playing shape by the time the season kicks off.

If I have any reasonable idea of how many players we'll get by then, I'll create the league before you leave so you can register your team. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a couple weeks to get enough responses to get the league going, but maybe I'm wrong this time around XD

So according to posts here, we have 6 players. Any 2 more that could join to get 8? Advanced teams provide a very different level of enjoyment. Specially those teams that only shine on Seasons 2 or 3

I'm going to give it another day or so before I start bugging people over Steam. Except for DoM, who was very vocal about my contacting him only through PM's in this situation.

I will also mention the Minor Leagues in case people want to play both - we already have 11 players signed up for the Minors, a whole slew of veterans have yet to post in that thread, and I may be able to pull in players from the Arstechnica/Arsclan Steam groups who no longer look at these forums on top of that. I'll probably only get a couple of those players at most, though, particularly if the people with 100+ hours don't accept my friend request >_<

I've been really busy, was promoted at work, and have my own restaurant now. It hasn't left me much time for gaming, however I do miss gaming with you all. If I played, I couldn't guarantee being able to make every game. I would try for sure, but it's going to be rough after working 16 hour days 6 days a week. I'll check my teams, and see if I've got a team up for the season. I've forgotten what teams I even had.

I'm in. Given the drubbing my elves took in the last 2 games of minors, I think I'll probably retire them and play up a new team in the pubs. Any suggestions for a bashy team that can score more than twice per game?

I'm in. Given the drubbing my elves took in the last 2 games of minors, I think I'll probably retire them and play up a new team in the pubs. Any suggestions for a bashy team that can score more than twice per game?

Lizardmen can do it. Norse can do it if they can stay alive long enough.

Chaos can do it EVENTUALLY, but that's not what we're talking about. Dark Elves are bashy, but probably not in the sense you're using.

Ok. With grambo in, we just need at least one more to make it 8. If we could be 10 even better, but I think 8 could be good enough.

I'm still undecided on which team to bring.

Amazons, Humans, Dark Elves, Nurgles, Pro Elves, Skaven.

We have 8 with Grambo and Nurg. I kind of expect someone like DoM, Zyrxil, or ICB to jump in on this as well. We will almost certainly have 10, you just have to give me a day or so to corner people on Steam and beg them to join the Majors.

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I'd like in, but I'm worried I deleted all my teams....

You have the Bone Gnashers (Ogres) at 1940k TV and the Bestigor Freebooters (Chaos) at 1770k TV.

Use Chaos. You will be much happier using Chaos in the Majors. Depending on who you ask, Chaos are top-5, top-3, or the outright best race at high TV. "High TV" in this context usually means "more than 2000k," but Chaos just keeps getting better and better from team creation all the way to something ludicrous like 2500k TV.

On the last game before the playoffs last Major League, I attempted to foul him twice and failed both times. I then had to choose between attempting one more foul, or winning the game. I really really wanted to foul, but I was 5th place at the time and wanted to make the playoffs (4 slots).

I'm still not sure that was the right decision XD

EDIT: If kedlav has already left for wherever, it'll be a week before the league starts. If kedlav is leaving today and registers first, then we're waiting for Grambo to finish his pubbie games. That shouldn't take nearly as long

On the last game before the playoffs last Major League, I attempted to foul him twice and failed both times. I then had to choose between attempting one more foul, or winning the game. I really really wanted to foul, but I was 5th place at the time and wanted to make the playoffs (4 slots).

I'm still not sure that was the right decision XD

EDIT: If kedlav has already left for wherever, it'll be a week before the league starts. If kedlav is leaving today and registers first, then we're waiting for Grambo to finish his pubbie games. That shouldn't take nearly as long

Posting on an iphone in the jetblue terminal at jfk. Crappy airport... Very bored